Education Pack

The ’45 Aid Society is here to support and help teachers who would like to use the story of the Boys to study the Holocaust.

The ’45 Aid Society represents the teenage and child-Holocaust survivors and their descendants who were brought to the UK after World War II for rest and rehabilitation. The group is known as ‘the Boys’ despite the fact that it included over 200 girls.

Members of the Boys were held in Nazi labour and concentration camps and used as slave labourers. They had also survived World War II in hiding or as lone children.

A key part of the story of the Boys is their life in the UK after liberation.

The ’45 Aid Society has devised an education pack based on the system of hostels, children’s homes, in which the members of the Boys were cared for after they arrived in the UK.

The hostels were scattered across Britain.

To find out more click here.

By studying the Boys cared for in one of the hostels students can discover the Holocaust through a unique history project.

Each hostel had about 30 Boys in it – a ideal number for the classroom.

The Boys in the hostels came from different backgrounds and their life stories illuminate varying aspects of the Holocaust.

Some hostels cared for Boys who were ill, others for younger children.